“What is gentlest in love is love's violence.Losing yourself in love, you reach love's goal.Love makes you suffer, as love makes you whole.Love steals your everything and makes you rich.Love is both meaningless and poetry.Captured by love, by love you are set free.”

“You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.”

“I did not have to learn to love you: You were chosen for me. I knew that the first time I saw you.—George Washington Carver”

“In a society where you are taught to love everything, what value does that place on love?”

“... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.”

“Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.”

“When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?”